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What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

htx80nerd 3mo ago
ya i cant believe im seeing this again
dofm 3mo ago
Was that creaking sound your knee or mine?
- transitorykris 3mo ago
  Hard to say, drkoop.com is a landing page now
moebrowne 3mo ago
Kinda reminds me of DMoz.
- dofm 3mo ago
  itsbeen84years.gif Dmoz! Those were the good days. :-)
- jonjacky 3mo ago
  Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.
Barbing 3mo ago
> Now the search engines aren’t the challenge Although it can still be a gamble whether a small site made it to DuckDuckGo (Bing’s crawler) But that only affects about seven of us anyway so your point stands > Submit It Trying to remember a different one…
rognjen 3mo ago
And don't forget StumbleUpon...
- wslh 3mo ago
  Speaking of StumbleUpon, I'm not sure whether this was just luck or something about its recommendation algorithm/social graph, but it was the only service where I didn't see the usual flood of traffic followed by rapid decay, the classic Slashdot/HN effect. The curve felt much smoother. I remember some bloggers at the time describing the same thing [1]. I'd be curious if anyone knows more details. [1] https://mark.blog/2007/10/23/the-stumbleupon-effect/ https://mark.blog/2007/10/23/the-stumbleupon-effect/
  - dd8601fn 3mo ago
    I can see how that kinda makes sense. We used StumbleUpon to visit interesting sites we wouldn’t otherwise find. It didn’t exist to keep you deeply engaged with a main StumbleUpon website. The aggregators are meant to be the destination. The links are more like shiny dangling lures. Some of them (reddit) do everything they can to keep you from having a reason to leave the page at all. So I suppose it would follow that one gets people engaged in your site, while the other kinda tries to keep them from doing that.
- thenthenthen 3mo ago
  Delicious!
  - gurjeet 3mo ago
    For those not in the know, this is a reference to del.icio.us, one of the OGs to use Domain (Name) hack technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
hexajon 3mo ago
Ha, a new/old webring. If you are reading this and know what that is, it's time for your prostate/mammogram check-up.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 3mo ago
  Haha or colonoscopy.

htx80nerd 3mo ago

ya i cant believe im seeing this again

dofm 3mo ago

Was that creaking sound your knee or mine?

transitorykris 3mo ago
Hard to say, drkoop.com is a landing page now

moebrowne 3mo ago

Kinda reminds me of DMoz.

dofm 3mo ago
itsbeen84years.gif Dmoz! Those were the good days. :-)
jonjacky 3mo ago
Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.

Barbing 3mo ago

> Now the search engines aren’t the challenge Although it can still be a gamble whether a small site made it to DuckDuckGo (Bing’s crawler) But that only affects about seven of us anyway so your point stands > Submit It Trying to remember a different one…

rognjen 3mo ago

And don't forget StumbleUpon...

wslh 3mo ago
Speaking of StumbleUpon, I'm not sure whether this was just luck or something about its recommendation algorithm/social graph, but it was the only service where I didn't see the usual flood of traffic followed by rapid decay, the classic Slashdot/HN effect. The curve felt much smoother. I remember some bloggers at the time describing the same thing [1]. I'd be curious if anyone knows more details. [1] https://mark.blog/2007/10/23/the-stumbleupon-effect/ https://mark.blog/2007/10/23/the-stumbleupon-effect/
- dd8601fn 3mo ago
  I can see how that kinda makes sense. We used StumbleUpon to visit interesting sites we wouldn’t otherwise find. It didn’t exist to keep you deeply engaged with a main StumbleUpon website. The aggregators are meant to be the destination. The links are more like shiny dangling lures. Some of them (reddit) do everything they can to keep you from having a reason to leave the page at all. So I suppose it would follow that one gets people engaged in your site, while the other kinda tries to keep them from doing that.
thenthenthen 3mo ago
Delicious!
- gurjeet 3mo ago
  For those not in the know, this is a reference to del.icio.us, one of the OGs to use Domain (Name) hack technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack

hexajon 3mo ago

Ha, a new/old webring. If you are reading this and know what that is, it's time for your prostate/mammogram check-up.

0xdeadbeefbabe 3mo ago
Haha or colonoscopy.